Patricia Briggs, Moon Called: I really liked Briggs’s first Ward Hurog book.  Her other fantasy efforts I’ve found less successful.  This is a new direction for her: modern urban fantasy in the early Laurell K. Hamilton style, which is to say - magical female protagonist holding her own against a lot of hot supernatural guys, but no sexual ( Read more... )

Did you know that there's a specific type of food poisoning associated with fried rice? Lesson: when you go to the funky hole-in-the-wall Chinese place, order from the funky regional menu that they care about, not the Americanized stuff they don't. misterrivkat and his dad had good meals, at least. And I eventually got my remix in, after I recovered. And I ( Read more... )